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  1. Re:What OS are we talking about? on Disconnection of Millions of DNSChanger-Infected PCs Delayed · · Score: 4, Informative

    Lazy, aren't you? Google the Trojan name, and the very first result tells you.
    Trojan:W32/DNSChanger

    That's if the context didn't tell you... Hmm, a Trojan infecting millions of machines to the level of getting courts involved. You really expect that to be Mac or Linux?

  2. Re:Very odd details on Disconnection of Millions of DNSChanger-Infected PCs Delayed · · Score: 2

    Kind of hard for a Linux machine to get infected with a Windows trojan. Even if it managed (through Wine) the trojan changes network settings - something totally incompatible between them (so the Wine API would fail, there).

    I'm sure there ARE infections that could do the job, but they are not this one.

  3. Re:Let it happen on Disconnection of Millions of DNSChanger-Infected PCs Delayed · · Score: 1

    Maybe the US govt doesn't want them to be cleaned up because the us govt is involved in them, somehow.

    That would work if the alternative wasn't said government disconnecting them.

  4. Re:It's simpler than that.... on Aging Eyes Blamed For Seniors' Health Woes · · Score: 1

    Born that way I suppose. It progressed in my late teens to how it is now (mid 20s) - no idea if it's staying where it is or not.

    I've been wearing the same (my first) prescription for a few years and I don't think I need a new pair, except for the few scratches etc.

  5. Re:Does staring at a Computer Screen all day count on Aging Eyes Blamed For Seniors' Health Woes · · Score: 1

    You take it a little before the desired "bed time" I take it?

    We have nonprescription sleep aids that have melatonin in it, so I'm assuming for now I can actually get it.

  6. Re:bird shot on Hunters Shoot Down Drone of Animal Rights Group · · Score: 1

    Yes, but the incident bratwiz is referring to involved Cheney shooting someone in the face - something difficult to do with birdshot unless said person was flying through the air.

  7. Re:It's simpler than that.... on Aging Eyes Blamed For Seniors' Health Woes · · Score: 1

    I can corroborate that with my own experience with astigmatism. Without my correction, my brain manages* - but it seems at a cost as I have a lot more general fatigue and not-giving-a-shit.

    * - without correction, I get triple vision but with a low angle - eg each eye has slight double vision, with the false images being a bit weaker, "blurred" (closer to smeared), and offset at different angles and rotation. After a few minutes (about 10 to 15) my "correction" kicks in and I only notice this when only one eye can see something, or point light sources (think LEDs, text on a screen, looking in a scope). I believe my brain starts to discard information that both eyes don't see, if possible. This results in some loss of definition for surfaces - I can see the shapes of things clearly, but it's almost like someone turned the world's texture resolution down.

  8. Re:Does staring at a Computer Screen all day count on Aging Eyes Blamed For Seniors' Health Woes · · Score: 1

    Can you toss more information on those lozenges to me? I seem to have almost the exact same issue you describe having.

  9. Re:Animal Rights? on Hunters Shoot Down Drone of Animal Rights Group · · Score: 1

    There's a reason we use the word 'humane" to describe clean kills. We, humans, have the reasoning to decide to make it so. Animals will just kill in the best, safest way they can - if they have to actually kill (parasites, some spiders, etc)

  10. Re:some sort of guided explosive device on Ask Slashdot: What Would Real Space Combat Look Like? · · Score: 1

    Directed Energy Weapons (eg "pulse guns") may well be one of the ways to go - but instead of pretty-looking "blasters" you just paint the other target with a laser or similar in an attempt to overwhelm it's cooling ability. No need to vent it, no tedious accelerations or projectiles. The one with the best tracking system and best cooling system (or preventative, such as a dust cloud) wins.

  11. Re:Animal Rights? on Hunters Shoot Down Drone of Animal Rights Group · · Score: 1

    Indeed. Take away the challenge of the hunt itself, and the challenge of the marksmanship... what, the only thing left is bloodlust!

    These asswipes make the rest of us gun owners look bad.

    This is why we can't have nice things.

  12. Re:Animal Rights? on Hunters Shoot Down Drone of Animal Rights Group · · Score: 1

    Keep your eyes open for the party van. If it's in town, there's likely someone with a dart gun looking for you :P

  13. Re:Ya well on Hunters Shoot Down Drone of Animal Rights Group · · Score: 1

    It routinely kills and maims random people.

    Those jackasses firing into the air... well, it goes to show how uneducated some of them are...

  14. Re:bird shot on Hunters Shoot Down Drone of Animal Rights Group · · Score: 1

    That would be the "directly within a few meters" - it's not like he fired into the air.

  15. Re:So, is what'll happen if.... on Hunters Shoot Down Drone of Animal Rights Group · · Score: 1

    Something along the lines of what happened here: it gets it's ass shot down.

  16. Re:Why would they need permission? on Google Seeks To Plant Antenna Farm In Iowa · · Score: 1

    the FCC requires permits for antennas above a certain db gain, and these would definately qualify for that.

    Just to make sure, you realize that "db gain" only has to do with directionality? It's the same word, but it has nothing to do with the gain of an amplifier (which just so happens might be behind the antenna, but has nothing to do with the gain of the antenna itself).

    I'm not 100% sure, but I think you only need the permits for antennas capable of practical transmission. Though, the ones we are talking about could be - it's probably just a matter of swapping out the feed horn.

  17. Re:Free = no good on Security Tool HijackThis Goes Open Source · · Score: 2

    Not everyone works in a functional cubicle where they all use the same software to do the same thing, and the only thing that shouldn't be persistent is the output data itself.

    You're confusing bean counters, data entry, and script readers with just about everyone else who needs some flexibility.

  18. Re:Free = no good on Security Tool HijackThis Goes Open Source · · Score: 1

    Wrong. Kind of hard to improve upon a program when it's closed source and only distributed via a compiled binary.

  19. Re:Free = no good on Security Tool HijackThis Goes Open Source · · Score: 1

    I can't see how a program could be forbidden just by being GPL3. From my understanding, the GPL does not "protect" or "infect" (depending on your perspective) program output - merely said program's code (be it for execution or linking (and execution)).

  20. Re:Still takes forever to "Rebuild the Font Cache" on VLC 2.0 'Twoflower' Released For Windows & Mac · · Score: 1

    Then there must be something else going on, for that much time and disk activity to be used...

  21. Re:What happens when people change their minds.. on Avoiding Red Lights By Booking Ahead · · Score: 1

    There's a solution to this used in FL and GA a lot: right turn lanes have a yield lane, that merges into the road they are turning.

    Here, for example - this is a fairly major intersection that has that technique for the direction of travel that normally backs up, and so helps allow the other direction to continue unimpeded while this is happening.

  22. Re:Bug on VLC 2.0 'Twoflower' Released For Windows & Mac · · Score: 1

    Because zip files have a hard time registering themselves as an installed application, updating file associations, creating menu items etc?

  23. Re:Media Player Classic - Home Cinema on VLC 2.0 'Twoflower' Released For Windows & Mac · · Score: 1

    Let me know when you can run MPC-HC on Linux, Mac, BSD etc.

  24. Re:better, still not there yet on VLC 2.0 'Twoflower' Released For Windows & Mac · · Score: 1

    Check your deinterlacing settings. You might need to try the IVTC option, snice 29.97fps NTSC DVDs "stutter" naturally without being detelecined.

  25. Re:Still takes forever to "Rebuild the Font Cache" on VLC 2.0 'Twoflower' Released For Windows & Mac · · Score: 1

    Another option: after a good cache run, just mark the cache read-only, immutable, or remove write permissions to the user. It might complain when it tries to scribble on the cache during a crash, but it should keep it pristine :)